Week 3/4 - Wireframes

Above are my first sketches for my front page layout, mainly dealing with how to incorporate the calendar and date into the header.

These turned into wireframes.

This first one puts the date on a carousel, with the idea that the dates would circle around, or you can pull down a calendar to choose a specific date. These two ideas don't really work together in hindsight; it should either rotate or pull down, not both. Other people also didn't really understand it, and the circular design left no room for a navigation bar.

These are back to basics a bit more with the layout, but I did want to keep it traditional for my site. The date function is based in the idea of this being like a newspaper archive, where you can look up a date and get a snapshot of what a newspaper/website would've looked like on that date. So I changed up the header, but kept the pull down calendar.